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Sanyo Announces "Banryu" Home Security Robot
Fooferaw writes "From the Sanyo web site: Sanyo and smaller tmsuk announce the next version of their "Banryu" home robot shaped somewhat like a dragon (it has the shiny curves of an AIBO, IMO). The Banryu can walk 15m/min., hear, sense in the infrared, and apparently "smell" a fire in the home. It even transmit real-time video." Corrected: The title initially said Sharp...I must have Zaurus on the brain.
btw: First post, w00t
He can sense fire, scare intruders, run about 15m per SECOND, he's still working on the real time video... Really, this is a cool gadget, but who needs it?
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Hrm, why does the headline read Sharp but the product is from Sanyo?
Robocop: "Freeze dirtbag."
Criminal claps
*Robocop powers off*
Criminal claps
Robocop: "Please don't do that.."
Dragon, nothin'. I want the "dragonFLY" from Danny Dunn, invisible boy. Even without the haptic feedback, I'd be happy. At this point, remote audio surveillance seems like the best strategy for relationships in my life...
(*bitter sigh*)
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How long before the Japanese Yakuza start selling robotic Steve Irwins to disable them?
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The trick is to walk slowly behind them or use EMP grenades
All that open gearing and interior access is just begging for kids and crumbs and small parts and a high maintenance life....
Yeah, not something I am buying....
This
Although the press release was not specific on exactly what sort of home security functions it would perform, I would think that it's speed would limit it's use. A 15 m per minute (.9 km/h) could easily be out walked by even the most unfit of people. This would seem to make it fairly useless in any sort of roving intruder detection system.
My other sig is funny!
Will it push Grandma down the stairs? Grandma needs to be protected!
NO CARRIER
I imagine that the shiny lizard-like shape intimidates burglars, making them want to run away.
Please... This has got to be one of the lamest gadgets I've ever heard of. You'll get better performance out of a few well placed web cams, some infrared motion detectors, and a smoke alarm or two. At least then you won't have to worry about the batteries wearing down every other day.
"Burnt smell"... hehe, that sounds real technical. Oh well. It's their money they dumped into R&D. I suppose they'll have to learn for themselves that the consumer market for such a device isn't large enough to sustain production.
Soon to be upgraded with 2000 degree centrigrade flamethrower plus optional napalm pack! Now that's secure. Until you come home from cheating on yer wife and try to sneak in.
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Love to see these in Robo-cup.
Either against the Sony Dogs, or on their own.
Sharp VS Sony.
nice.
With the sensor the robot will be able to detect "burnt scent" which is known to occur in the atmosphere preceding a fire.
Oh, boy... I hope it's a bit smarter than simply "smelling" something burning (detecting smoke in teh aair).
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
They forgot to mention the reason it has a smoke detector: like any good robotic dragon it is equipped with some "glands" that basically make, well...
Napalm, son.
Does the two colors mean that it comes in 27 and 49mhz version?
(obvious to anyone who has a normal tyco or similar RC Car)
This
A robot that can say "Danger, Will Robinson" and actually mean it!
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I want something with genuine firepower. Not something that attempts to overcome burglars by giving them a case of the giggles.
i wonder what exactly Guard Dragon Mode does.
Some psycho "gun-nut" like Eric Raymond (i AM quoting himself) can probably americanize the dragon with 15 lbs of double barrel action.
Probably not something you'd want to beta test if you have a baby crawling around the house.
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Sharp Announces "Banryu" Home Security Robot
The Banryu can walk 15m/min., hear, sense in the infrared, and apparently "smell" a fire in the home.
Sounds impressive, but my 36" Louisville Slugger probably wouldn't mind delivering a few Newton-meters of torque to Banryu's ass.
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...I can yell "Beer me!" and it trots over with a frosty mug full.
I wouldn't mind having an ED 209 minding my place. Although if someone did break into my house there wouldn't be much left of it at the end...
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1000mm? That's over 3 feet long.
the base model doesn't seem to have a lot of bite to its bark... but unlike a real dog you might be able to mount a backpack rocket launcher like that dog shadow from the centurions.
On the other hands, real k9s these days can carry body armour, so I guess things might be looking up for organic hounds.
Sharp Announces "Banryu" Home Security Robot.....
"From the Sanyo web site....."
If it is Sanyo, what's with the Sharp in the title?
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
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the first thing you here is
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Sure it looks cool, but how hackable is this thing?
Can I interface it to my Linux box to get real time pics to my websever?
I want Linux compatible consumer electronics. I am sick of building my own!
Which is it?
"Stay a while... stay FOREVER!"
"Get him my robots"
Help me... must not get bought out by lame-ass company and be folded out of existence...
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A device that will film me smoking after sex and broadcast the image over the internet.
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Sorry, couldn't resist it.
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damned robot.
"Woof! Woof! Woof! Hello, I'm Rags. Woof! Woof! Woof!"
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It does nothing a few motion sensors, burglar alarm and a smoke detector does. Why don't these robot developers just admit they are making toys and get on with it, rather than pretend its some sort of security device/fire alarm etc...
I rather have my dog watch my house for fires. And I bet that robot thingy can't bite the balls off an intruder...
All the robots I've bought from this company have had bad motivators.
What are they trying to push on us?
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
If it can smell when things are burning it would be able to tell me when my wife has supper ready
the headline read Sanyo?
Sanyo is a darned good company, though. They're a huge competitor to Panasonic and if I remember correctly, they were doing better than Panasonic on home appliances in Japan, but just don't have enough name recognition overseas. I got to take a tour of one of their R&D headquarters in Osaka over the summer, and I must say, they've got some really cool stuff in very thin, high resolution displays in the works. Hopefully this new robot will get them some of the name recognition they need outside of Japan.
"Its speed has been increased from 3meters/min. to 15meters/min"
On the plus, they did increase the speed 5 fold, hopefully they can go for more if they want it to be some true security for the home.
Has it got the Bunny inside?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I still don't understand the fascination for Robots in Japan.
It is obviously part of the japanese culture to contemplate a robot as an ideal solution for this sort of problems and that serious money is invested in reaching that goal. It's also clear how that is not the case in western cultures, just look at the amount of "Funny" posts on this topic.
Now if I would be contemplating having one I see two big problems right away:
-How is it really going to navigate in the mess I have in my appartment, hell I can't.
-How is it supposed to stop intruders when this robot is the single most expensive thing I have in the house! (I bet is not cheap)
The only explanation I can come up with is that is yet another toy for the japanese high class.
IMHO
"meee meeeee meeeee mee mee meee"
"Did you get it?"
"Hold on, I'm checking for robot guards. - meee meee meee meeee meee mee"
"THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE ANY ROBOT GUARDS, RETARD, JUST GET KENNY"
"beeep beep, meee meeeee meeeee mee mee meee"
wtf? that's like saying I can't step over gaps of 1 feet.
screw THAT.
as much as this (middle of page) is unethical, i think it will do better.
and it's SANYO, not SHARP. get it straight, yall.
p.s. the link is april fools joke. don't flame me.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
He said his DOG can run 15m/second.
That's a bit on the high side for a dog.. that's 54km/h
it WILL kill me in my sleep
Please god tell me it's not purple...
"I love you, you love me, I'm robot se-cur-i-tee..."
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I think "ryu" in Japanese means dragon (hence why it looks like a dragon). What does "ban" add to it? Anyone know, out of curiosity.
today is spelling optional day.
* Super-Remote Control Mode
* Guard Dragon Mode
* Pet Mode
Banryu doesn't "smell fire", it spits it out of it's mouth when switched to Guard Dragon Mode!
using System.Awesome;
The big Honda humanoid robot has it right, but costs too much.
Went to a talk at Stanford today on low-cost stereo vision systems. Those have been around for years, but they're about to get cheap. Unfortunately, the killer apps are security-related, but the robotics community will benefit anyway.
We're getting close to actually being able to do this stuff right, after decades of frustration in the robotics community.
Evil henchman #1 "A toy robot!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH". Jumps through window.
Evil henchman #2 Laughs.
Toy Robot "Eat lead suckers"
Maybe they could strap guns or dynamite to it and set it to explode or start firing as soon as it detects a buglar. Although you better not invite the hambuglar over or it might get confused.
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OK, We've all known that technology was going to begin replacing humans eventually... and in a crazy twist, its the dogs get blindsided out of nowhere!
Someone, quick, start a non-profit organization to save the dogs!
my boss paid for my trip to IT2002 Asia expo in kitakyushu,jp, where I got to see one of these things "in action".
infact, it was broken, and a bunch of strange-looking men were trying to fix it by pushing on tops of its legs and crawling around the unit.
Thought it was pretty funny.
I wouldn't buy one, the thing is huge and looks weird.
Better program it with Asimov's laws of robotics, otherwise this trend could eventually get pretty scary.
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The title says Sharp, the text (and website) says Sanyo...
From the second paragraph of the article:
..."
"The new "Banryu", which means "guard-dragon" in place of "guard-dog",
So there you have it.
this is all i need, now my PET will bitch about my severe nicotine addiction
Screw the Three Laws of Robotics! I'm not buying one until I can get a lethal force option.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
When i saw "Home Security Robot" i was thinking some giant thing with guns, not some little thing that makes noise. "DANGER DANGER WILL ROBINSON!"
All the men that the pizza delivery boy sleeps with their girlfriends/wives. Don't you remember Loverboy from the 80s?
It needs something else like a Flamethrower or a rail gun otherwise what fun is it going to be?
I think a burglar would think twice about going into a house knowing the owner had a 12 gauge rather that some hunk of shit robot that tips over when it tries to crawl over a rug.
"It even transmit real-time video."
Yeah, I'm going to recommend that all sorrorities on campus deploy these units for, ummm, safety reasons.
Go off every time that pizza boy your wife is cheating with tries to leave when you come home from work early as in Loverboy?
At 15 miles per minute i would say it runs. now if it just had a gun or maybe some skunk juice.. that would be cool. I might be able to run 9 miles per hour.. gosh that could run infront of me and spray me and oh wait.. I hate all of this conversion crap.. meters / miles ... same difference. hours / minutes.. its all stupid.
wow - wtf game was that from? Back in the C-64 days. Elevator something?
--all the stuff you want a robot to do is not that hard, where they get lame is in the travelling around part. The stickler appears to be so far in the primitive walking. Scratch that, they need wheels or tracks. Make it a lot cheaper. The guy who invented the segway had an ubermobility wheelchair thing. I saw it once at a medical trade show.(well, I think it was his, long time ago now) Turn that badboy into a robot. It could climb stairs, carry serious invalid weight. Start with something like that, trick it out. You could make it 7 feet tall at the top, now THAT might make someone stop and think if it was staring him in the face with lotsa e-vile red glowing blinkenlights and a voice coming out. I guess the little cute robot dragon is better for the very small japanese housing or say a small urban apartment here. For a more mainstream robot in the US it has to be able to negotiate stairs, PLUS grab the dang lawnmower and do the grass. Might as well get some work out of them for their electric bill.
heh
--dogs are great, got two. They are small,15 lb'ers, good for fires or intruders for notification purposes. 10 cents of pepper spray or straight ammonia in a squirt gun would knock them out, same as any rottweiler at 150 lbs. That's what I used to use when bicycling and jerks let their packs of mutts chase bikers and cars. Spray, howl, done. Got tired of breaking frame mount air pumps as a club. False security with a dog, useful for detection, not for "security" as regards other humans, not any determined human anyway.. You need a thinking human who's armed and awake for any real security, that and actual for-real barriers to entrance. I think of "guard" dogs as sensors and kamikaze slower-downers to the badguys.
-no security at your home if the bad guys can get in. No one is all that security conscious most places I've seen. Thick plexi windows and steel reinforced door jams and solid steel doors exist, hardly no one uses them. I've custom installed them for people, and have some friends who did it, but it was always after the fact of getting robbed.
And a lot of newer houses, sheesh, vinyl siding on the outside,then gyp board,then fiberglass insulation then drywall. Like, all you need to get in someone's new house built like that nowadays-and quietly- is a simple razor knife right through the wall, skip the doors and windows. It's a problem not advertised much in the press.
>Back in the C-64 days. Elevator something?
:-)
Here's a couple of clues...
"Another visitor..."
and: Epyx.
Okay, that should be enough. Maybe.
Yes, it did involve a lot of elevators. Elevator wasn't in the title, though.
That's a good idea -- I wouldn't want Ryu coming into my home and hadouken-ing the place up.
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
Ok my previous post was probably a bit harsh, as most robot people will only have a background with wheeled robots. Well to make a long story short, walking robots still suck and wheels are still far more practical for almost all tasks. Locomotion demos often try to hide the thorny problems and make it look like walking will soon be practical, but its still quite far off IMO, though progress is being made. Legged robots mostly exist thanks to their coolness factor, which is sad given that a wheeled robot can be cheaper while traveling at 5-10 times the speed...
Now if I had a home security robot that looked like
that
people would be sh*tting bricks if they came to rob my joint! I mean the freaking jedis were scared of them!Why?
my other sig sucks less
My dog is a freakin genius. He never barks at anything but strangers and kills everything smaller than him that gets into the house. Never had a fire but he came and bugged me once till I realized I had left the oven on. Sure, a robot doesn't crap in the yard but it also doesn't care about you. Call me old fashioned but technology just can't replace some things. Lets see that piece of crap catch a frisbee
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Bruce Lee-alike places little walking robot in room. Technician 1: (Screams in horror) A TOY ROBOT!!!!! Technician 2: (Joins in screams) A TOY ROBOT!!!!! Technician 1: Aarrgghhh!!!!! (leaps thru plate glass window) Technician 2: A TOY ROBOT???? haha - a toy robot!!! Robot: Eat lead sucker!
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(grin)
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The next model up has a refillable "bee module" which will allow it to shoot bees out of it's mouth to disable intruters.
I'm not sure where you get the bees from, though.
i can buy 10 $30 ones and save money, but those can't walk around the house...
and i guess you need two... one for upstairs and one for downstairs...
why did i need this again?
If anyone happened to read Neal Stephensson's Snow Crash, You could not miss the similarties to the Rat Thing. One can only hope that this beast does not have a real dragon underneath the casing.
I think all these Japanese robots like this one, the Aibo, the Asimo etc are all very interesting not so much in terms of what they are now but in terms of what they might lead to.
Put it this way. 25 years ago personal computers were primitve things, you couldn't do a lot with many of them. But now you can go out and buy something thousands of times more powerful, often for less money.
And maybe Japanese companies are playing the long term game here - while the machines they are producing now are little more than toys, in time the prices will come down and they will become actually useful. Imagine a robot like this in 20odd years time stronger and faster than any guard dog and able to call the police once the burglar has been taken down.
Imagine a robotic servant which can clean your house, make the tea and which you can later plug a joypad into to play GTA12 on the Playstation 19.
Yeah. Now we can scoff. But I think they are playing a long game here, and all this robotic research is going somewhere beyond expensive toys.
"Information wants to be paid"
I can see how this thing would work out in an industrial setting (like patrolling a warehouse), but I can't see the average home user dropping their $$ for one. The thing would go apesh!t everytime you burn the toast!
GET FREE APPLE STUFF!
I think my alarm/home security system moves faster than 15m/min. What exactly is he going to scare away at that speed...it's like old special effects in horror movies...the only way the mummy catches anyone is because they fall down.
So... If I fart in its face will it think its on fire?
Sounds like some sort of anti- Street Fighter clan...
What I want to know is if it will find bugs that are put into my bedroom by an assassin. We all know that R2 units can't find them if they hide under the bed. With the economic downturn I've had to downsize the Jedi's.
Will code for sig...
$5k.. no way man. I designed and built my own
robot! It detects fires and puts them out. I bought a SP0256 chip so pretty soon it will be talking too! Check out my eobot at:
www.nfnnet.org/spazbot
Pick up a Handyboard, PIC, or OOPIC and save your money!
From the title "Home security robot", I would expect this thing to guard against intruders with stun guns or something. My initial thought was "Okay, some moron's gonna buy one of these and it will attack his kid for trying to play with it." Hehe.
In Japanese "banken" would mean "guard dog"
so banryu is just a "cute" extension of that.
("Banbyou" would be "guard cat" but that word
doesn't seem to be used at all!)
because if I was a burglar this would be the *first* thing I took :)
Every self-respecting otaku should recognize "Banryu"-the-houseguard concept as a ripoff of Skuld's Banpei (from "Oh My Goddess" manga/movie). I wonder if they installed emotion chips or anti-demoness attack modes into the banryus?
... but where are the dragonballs??
Buy one and reprogram it. Then juice it up. Say, to 16 m/min.
**robot enters house with pantyhose on head**
**goes for jewelry box**
**security robot intervenes**
**slow-motion chase ensues**
If you look carefully enough at the pictures you'll see a little 'T72S' along the dorsal crest. Does this little guy suffer from delusions of grandeur?
Now, the real test will be to see if other dogs bark at it when it goes past while youre out taking it for a walk. Well, dumb really, because our neighbour's dog barks at just about anything, the stupid mutt. Maybe we can get the robot dog to send piercing high frequency signals so the dogs in the neighbourhood shut the f&*^k up.
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